The Senates lame-duck session would begin the week of Nov. 15, according to an internal document obtained by The Hill.

Under a scheduled laid out by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the Senate would return on Monday, Nov. 15 for a single week before breaking for the week of Thanksgiving.

The upper chamber would then return to business on Monday, Nov. 29. It is not clear how long the Senate would then remain in session.

The House has not announced a preliminary schedule for post-election sessions.

Congress could have to consider appropriations bills after the election, as well as what to do with expiring Bush-era tax breaks. Reid on Wednesday said the Senate would take up the tax cuts in September.

Once the Senate adjourns as expected on Thursday evening, senators will return on Monday, Sept. 13 and will stay in session until Friday, Oct. 8.

Over that four-week period  the last before the Nov. 2 elections  the Senate is scheduled to take up the tax cuts, energy legislation and a small business incentives bill.

Now we have to ask can we count on Rhinos plus two special election Rhinos Castle and Kirk to stop Reid? We need to take this seriously. Right now we should get commitments to all GOP that they will vote as a block to stop the lame duck session.

The RATs have the majority in both chambers and can pass any legislation without the OP(formerly the GOP) but have refrained from doing so in the past because they want the OP to vote with them to make it appear any legislation is bipartisan. The OP staying home will make passing any of the RATs legislation solely on them.

There are at least two seats where, if the Republicans win, they can immediately be seated and the appointed members go home. Those members are Burris from Illinois and the new appointee from WVA. That would help until the new Congress is sworn in in January.

They're going to make gay marriage and abortion mandatory, approve funding for a 400 foot statue of Mohammad to be erected in the middle of Arlington National Cemetery, and declare Obama the Eternal King of the People's Republic of Amerika.

Most senators elected in special elections or appointed are out of office immediately and replaced by winners in the general election.

They don't have to wait 'til January.

Here's what it said in the National Review:

Senate Democrats who think they can use a lame-duck session to force the country into a final, decisive lurch to the left may be in for a big surprise: newly elected senators ready to take their seats and derail major policy changes before the new Congress convenes.

There are now six unelected members of the U.S. Senate; they represent Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New York, and West Virginia.

The rules governing the seating of senators elected to replace appointed senators are left to the states in the 17th amendment. New Yorks law specifies the date the new senator takes office as January 3, so Kirsten Gillibrand will still be a senator in a potential lame-duck session, regardless of the outcome of her election bid.

The other five states, however, all have laws that indicate the election winners may be seated immediately following their election  in time for the lame-duck session.

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posted on 08/07/2010 2:40:17 PM PDT
by capt. norm
(Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)

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